Carpet and floor cleaning tool.



G. E. WIGHTMAN.

CARPET AND FLOOR CLEANING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 2. IQIG- lfi fi lfiu Patented Aug. 7,1917.

A TTORIVEVS or other similar floor tum? a GEORGE ERNEST WIGHTMAN, OE PORTLAND, OREGON.

CARPET AND FLOOR CLEANING TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

. f Patented Aug. 7, 191?.

Application filed October 2, 1916. Serial No. 123,285.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. WIGHTMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and Improved Carpet and Floor Cleaning Tool, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has for its object to provide a tool having a brush for scrubbing carpets and floors with a cleansing material, which may be applied thereto, the tool having an extending edge for scraping off said material from the carpet when the cleansing process has been completed. The treatment by the said edge also serves to allay the nap. When a Wood, linoleum, tile, cork, marble has been cleaned by the use of the brush and the cleansing material,-a drier carried by a bracket on the tool may be moved relatively to the tool to an operative position, and the cleansing material may be removed and the floor may be dried thereby. I

Another object of the invention is to provide the drier which is carried by the bracket with a member for pushing out of i I the way most of the cleansing material tens when pressureis which is'heavy' with dirt, the drier having in the rear of the said member a resilient member with its bottom concave which flatapplied to the tool, thereby forming a suction which is a drying feature of the tool.

Additional objects of the invention will appear in the following specification, in whih the preferred form of the invention A p is described.

. In the drawings similar reference characters denote simllar parts in all the'views, in which Figure 1 is a sectional 11 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the tool; 4

Fig. 3 is a sectional view similar to that shown in Fig. 1, but with the brush disposed upwardly rearwardly;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view similar to that shown in .Fig. 3, but with the bracket moved forwardly and the. drier disposed against the floor;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary sectional view illustrating the means for holding the bracket yieldingly in predetermined position; and

view on the line beyond the bracket 11 orifices in these ears 18 20 may be disposed therein which serve to.

and the bracket disposed either in the Fig. 6 is an enlarged transverse sectional view of the drier.

-When cleaning carpets and floors, it is desirable that a cleansing material be employed which is of a soapy nature and of a very heavy consistency when applied. en such a cleansing material is used, the scrubbing of the material works it into a foam, which at a certain point in the'cleansing process passes away through the action of the air, and by absorption of the fabric. It is at this point that the cleansing material should be squeezed from the floor or carpet and. into piles, andthen gathered up into a pan which may be provided for this purpose. It will, therefore, be readily understood that at the period when the scrubbing process is finished and thecleans ing material should be removed, it is important that the operator have at hand the .necessary tool with which the cleansing material may be squeezed from the floor or carpet.

By referring'to the drawings, it will be seen that the tool is provided with an operating portion 10 having brackets 11 and 12 extending from one of its sides, there being a threaded orifice 13 in the bracket 12 in which a screw. 14 meshes, the said screw 11 being provided -for pressing the brush-back 15 against the bracket 11. 'By this means tool.

' The operating portion of the tool extends to form a scraping edge 16, the said scraping edge 16 being curved in the generaldirection of the side from which the brackets lland 12 extend.

At the other side of the operating portion of the tool there'is disposed a bracket 17 which has ears 18 each disposed between a pair of cars 19 which extend from the operating portion of the tool. There are and 19, so that pins pivot the bracket 17, as will be well understood. In this bracket 17 there is an opening 21'. through which a spring 22 is disposed, this spring 22 being secured at 23 to the operating portion of the tool, the

spring serving to hold -the bracket. yieldingly position illustrated in Fig. 1

or in the position illustrated in Fig. ,3 of t e drawings. A detail of this feature of the invention is shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings.

of the drawin the brush may be detachably secured to the p The bracket 17 serves to carry a drier 24.

' The drier 24 has a forwardly depending leg 25, the function of which is to push the cleansing material which carries the main body of the dirt, in advance of the main portion of the drier proper 26. The positionof the depending leg 25 when pressure is applied relatively to the main portion 26 of the drier, is such that the end 25 just touches the floor when the main or bod portion of the drier 26 is pressed down flus at the concave surface 27. In this way the points of the main portion or body 26 of the drier in advance and at the rear of its concave portion 27, are more or less active,

, with the result that the depending leg 25 at times does not touch the floor, and at no time does the depending leg 25 bear against,

the floor with any. pressure. This body portion 26 has its bottom 27 concave so that when the bracket is disposed forwardly, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, and pressure is applied to the tool, the concave bottom 27 of the body portion '26 of the drier will be flattened and form a suction which will assist in removing moisture from the floor. It will also beunderstood that when the bottom 27 of the body portion 26 of the drier 24 flattens it will be disposed in close proximity to the depending leg 25, which will serve to maintain the said leg in normal position. The drier 24 is preferably manufactured of rubber or other similar material, and to assist in retaining the drier in the bracket I prefer to reinforce the top of the scrubbing it with the brush, and with the aid of a cleansing material, the bracket 17 is moved forwardly to the position indicated in Figs. 1 and 4 of the drawings, and the tool is operated so that the depending leg 25 will push the bulk ofthe cleansing fluid with the dirt from the floor, while the body portion 26 of the drier will serve to dry the floor.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent: p

. 1. A drier having a depending leg for removing a fluid and in the rear of the depending leg a resilient member having its bottom concave.

2. A drier having a depending leg for removing a fluid and in the rear of the depending leg and adjacent thereto a resilient drier member, the resilient drier member having its bottom concave with its rear edge lower than its, forward edge.

3. A support, a bracket movably mounted on the support and adapted to be moved forward to rest against the support, a drier carried by the bracket, and resilient means secured to the support for holding the bracket in any oneof a plurality of positions relatively to the support.

4. A support, abracket movably mounted on the support and adapted to be moved for- 'wardly to rest against the support, a drier carried by the bracket and having a depending leg for removing a fluid "and in the rear her having its bottom concave, and resilient means secured to the support for holding the bracketin any one of a plurality of positions relatively to the support.

5. A support, a bracket movably mounted on the support and adapted to be moved forward to rest against the support, a drier carried by the bracket, there being an opening in the bracket, and a spring secured to the support and disposed through the opening and against the bracket for holding the bracket in adjusted position.

GEORGE ERNEST WIGHTMAN.

of the depending leg a resilient drie'rmem- 

